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The Nintendo Difference

This thread comes in peace I swear.

But thought this would be an interesting "experiment"

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For the past couple of years, the Wii in my apartment has collected a thick layer of dust, simply because I am an Xbox 360 junkie. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Mass Effect 2, Halo 3: ODST, achievement points, Xbox Live Arcade and even Avatars distracted me from waggling, to the point that I feel a bit pathetic for having purchased so many games for Wii and either playing them for just a couple of hours or not at all.

We stopped playing New Super Mario Bros. Wii because of Modern Warfare 2. Time to change that.

At the same time, I've also noticed a disturbing increase in aggression, largely attributed to playing Modern Warfare 2. Losing a game of Free-for-All (especially by a close margin) normally results in profanity-laced tirades that are so loud, I'm surprised the neighbors haven't called the police.

That said, I made the decision to inject a serious dose of Nintendo into my life. The goal? First, to gain a newfound appreciation for the Wii and its games. Second, to see if playing Nintendo games (both for Wii and DS) decrease stress and aggression. Finally, it's a way to revisit my youth, when controllers came with two buttons and you didn't have to worry about two bozos working together to secure a nuke.

To that end, we'll dedicate the entire month to Nintendo. Each workday, I'll choose a random Nintendo game and write about it, starting February 1st and concluding on the 28th.

Naturally, it's hard to say whether playing excessive amounts of Wii will make me a nicer person. That largely depends on the selected games. But after spending more than three full days fragging people (and being fragged) in Modern Warfare 2, it's time for a change. I certainly hope you join me.

http://www.gamedaily.com/games/super...do-difference/

Day 1
Mario Strikers Charged

Day 2
Wario Land: Shake It

Day 3
Excitebots: Trick Racing

Day 4
Mario Kart Wii

Day 5
Excitebike: World Rally

Day 6
Kirby Canvas Curse

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I don't want your smallpox blankets.

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Is this a new kind of corporatism?

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Earl, I have a hard time hearing you with Nintendo's $%&@ lodged firmly in your mouth...

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Originally Posted by Professor S (Post 262901)

Earl, I have a hard time hearing you with Nintendo's $%&@ lodged firmly in your mouth...

Bam!

How long until that guy goes back to playing MW2? :p

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Originally Posted by Professor S (Post 262901)

Earl, I have a hard time hearing you with Nintendo's $%&@ lodged firmly in your mouth...

You know, I don't get this.

What's the point of this really?

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I'm already putting 7 hours a day into my Wii. Fire Emblem has consumed my life. :) And after that, there's Okami, Disaster and Another Code R.

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Originally Posted by BreakABone (Post 262907)

You know, I don't get this.

What's the point of this really?

:ohreilly:

Yeah, that was unnessicary.

And your day 3 link is messed up lol

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Originally Posted by BreakABone (Post 262907)

You know, I don't get this.

What's the point of this really?

Earl, calm down. It's was just breaking your balls a little. It's what guys do. ;)

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I see Professor S is above moderation.

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See, Earl's reaction to Prof S proves that playing Wii increases the size of your vagina.

Real men play Xbox. :p

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Originally Posted by TheGame (Post 262972)

:ohreilly:

Yeah, that was unnessicary.

And your day 3 link is messed up lol

Fixed.

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Originally Posted by Professor S (Post 262973)

Earl, calm down. It's was just breaking your balls a little. It's what guys do. ;)

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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin (Post 262977)

See, Earl's reaction to Prof S proves that playing Wii increases the size of your vagina.

Real men play Xbox. :p

See its damned if you do, damned if you don't.

If I responded, I would have been taking it too personally as I've been told before so eh.

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I've never liked the use of 'mature' words/expressions here on GT. But I've learned to shut up about it. It still sucks.

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I don't think I ever cursed or screamed while playing Mario Kart online.

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Originally Posted by Angrist (Post 262988)

I've never liked the use of 'mature' words/expressions here on GT. But I've learned to shut up about it. It still sucks.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1803

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So humor aside, essentially what I get from this blog is that Modern Warfare 2 makes you aggressive and makes you curse, and waggling makes you a nice, polite gamer.

:ohreilly:

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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin (Post 263007)

So humor aside, essentially what I get from this blog is that Modern Warfare 2 makes you aggressive and makes you curse, and waggling makes you a nice, polite gamer.

:ohreilly:

Well, no, he hasn't drawn that conclusion.
The experiment... not so much the "waggle" but since Nintendo tends... to make more... I guess.. happy go lucky games. Instead of bang bang dead games, that you will feel less stressed/aggravated than say a MW 2.

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Originally Posted by Thespis721 (Post 262990)

I don't think I ever cursed or screamed while playing Mario Kart online.

You're not playing it correctly. Go back and try again :p

And playing Mario Strikers Charged on the first day wasn't a very good choice. I think that was the game that taught me how to curse at a TV screen.

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I guess I don't curse because I WIN. Except when I used to play BB, I always lost. Guess he's got my number.

I tend to spend more time on most Nintendo games, funny enough. My 360/PS3 give me such a feeling of malaise when I play. I started playing Bioshock and I can't seem to sit through it but I sat for hours playing NSMBWii.

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I think I got more angry over Super Smash Bros. Brawl than any other game ever.

But then again it was also my favorite Smash game, and by far the one I was best at. :)

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Yay, finally somebody who also likes Brawl better than Melee. :)

And I don't think I get mad over games anymore. Not sure if I ever have actually...

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Well, let's keep the pattern going. I loved Brawl more then Melee. Sure the super ball thing was cheap, but you know what, everyone can do it. I loved it. It was very smooth and actually made some of those impossibly unbalanced characters (*cough* Fox *cough*) and leveled them out. I think people got angry when they did an up smash with Fox and it wasn't an insta-kill so they said the game sucked.

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Actually that was a typo, I meant melee.

Brawl is laggy and has way to many insta kills.

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I forgot Brawl even has smash balls because my friends don't like using them - which I personally think is sort of dumb. It's the great equalizer.

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I think I cuss more when playing single-player games than multiplayer. When playing multiplayer I try to keep the experience competitive but also social and fun. When I play single player I seek out different gratification and often that means rising blood pressure and cursing.

Seriously, to really get good at multiplayer you need to relax and turn anger into motivation to learn from your mistakes. You can exploit people's anger a lot in FPS games because they will repeat their behavior over and over and over....makes for some good sniping in CS or setting up a campfire with some smores and my handy turret in TF2.

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Hm I was afraid you meant Melee. I don't see why everybody thinks that Melee was better than Brawl. I guess I'm not competitive enough. I for example never stick with my best character: I pick from a large pool (7 or so) of characters. If I wanted to win all the time, I'd stick with Ike.
Brawl has a lot more characters that I like. Melee only had 2 or 3.